Why do computers show the Blue Screen of Death. I'm talking for Windows XP especially and any Windows operating system in general.
Is it a virus? Or an error problem. Tell me the reason why please.
Thanks.
2007-08-02 23:53:17 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
For those of you who do not know what the blue screen of death is...its the blue screen that comes up on a computer showing an error.
2007-08-02 23:58:42 · update #1
The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD, bluescreen, or stop error) is an error screen displayed by certain operating systems, most notably Microsoft Windows, after encountering a critical system error. Bluescreens can be caused by poorly-written device drivers, faulty memory, a corrupt Registry, or incompatible DLLs. Bluescreens have been present in all Windows-based operating systems since Windows 3.1; OS/2 and MS-DOS suffered the Black Screen of Death, and early builds of Windows Vista displayed the Red Screen of Death after a boot loader error.
Hope this helps !
2007-08-03 00:01:52 · answer #1 · answered by Phade3 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you're as big as Microsoft and have absolutely not competition, your don't need to spend a lot of time making sure your system is bug free. If Windows crashes to the point where it can no longer recover by reloading the offending files a DOS error message appears offering all kinds of totally useless information for the average user. Microsoft is trying to impress you that it cares, but we all know they couldn't care less. Why should they? You can't go to the computer store and purchase a better system. Some readers will say that's garbage, just load Linux instead. Well just go ahead and try. I doubt that any software on your hard disk will work, especially your graphics programs and games. So you have to live with the Blue Screen of death because after 12 years of trying, Microsoft still can't get Windows to do what it's expected to do. Don't get me wrong, Linux is fantastic, but the mainstream software developers won't produce programs for it. Until they do, Microsoft rules!
2007-08-03 00:32:27 · answer #2 · answered by John K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its cos of problems with hardware usually...............and it will give you something to do for a few hours!!!!..............................................At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared
the computer industry with the auto industry and stated,
"If Ford had kept up with technology like the computer industry
has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the
gallon."
In response to Bill's comments, Ford issued a press release
stating:
"If Ford had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be
driving cars with the following characteristics" (and I just love this
part):
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash........
twice a week.
2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you would have
to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason.
You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the
windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you
could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would
cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you
would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was
reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only
five percent of the roads.
6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would
all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal
Operation" warning light.
7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.
8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you
out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door
handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to
learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate
in the same manner as the old car.
10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off.
2007-08-03 00:02:16 · answer #3 · answered by abitofchange23 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
BSOD is usually an error problem. The error could be due to system instability caused by overclocking, RAM settings, power supply, or software issues that may be driver bugs or a virus.
2007-08-03 00:02:12 · answer #4 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's not a virus it's happen when the hardware components and the operating systems have conflicts.
2007-08-03 00:06:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have deadstoped your computer it makes a dent in your harddrive which means that what is what you proberly have a dernt in your harddrive meaning that your computer will give you the blue screen like it did to me today
2007-08-02 23:57:40 · answer #6 · answered by londonangel007 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BSOD is due to a conflict between your hardware drivers and/or operating system. Also, it may be caused by a malfunction of a hardware of your computer (i.e. video card, sound card, etc...), this is due to dust accumulating, olderness of the componentsd, etc...
2007-08-03 00:01:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excuse me, what are you talking about, death? lol
2007-08-02 23:56:38 · answer #8 · answered by Cindy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
optimise your computer by running defrag
2016-05-17 06:31:08 · answer #9 · answered by candi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They like to $%&@ with us!! Making our day brighter.
2007-08-02 23:55:35 · answer #10 · answered by oh_what_a_wabbit 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋